Memorial Day weekend camping 2014

Friday, May 23rd through Monday, May 26th, 2014

On Friday the Peck's had a cousin wedding in Iowa City, so Kyle spent the afternoon with us before heading over to Grandma Marilyn's. We had a fun picnic lunch...

And after the girls got off the bus, we headed over to Coffin's Grove! I actually did not get my camera out on Friday, this is Saturday :) Lauren 9-1mo

Notice the slightly different scene compared to last year???   Memorial Day 2013
No winter coat, no stocking caps... :D we were livin' it up I tell you!!!

Ms. LeaAnn, 3-3mo, drove that tractor everywhere!!

All the boys moved their 'farm' from camper to camper :)

Lydia, 4-1/2, eating of course ;) but it was an apple!

Lindsay Lou-hoo at 7-9mo

Dun, dun, dun... the inside of our new camper! :D All the girls are in here playing/coloring and we have ROOM to move and walk around and SEE what everyone is doing!! It's great!

So exciting... such a breath of fresh air ;)

And on Saturday, Dustin & Craig headed out with some of the boys and came back with this sack of morel mushrooms!!

Wow. That's all I can say. They all went to bed at the same time and watched a movie... We've come a LONG way from 3-years ago when LeaAnn was a newborn...

On Sunday, it was decided that mushroom hunting was worth another go-round and all the kids wanted to go this time, including LeaAnn. But when it was time to leave, Dad thought it'd be easier to leave LeaAnn behind and sneak away without her knowing. Bad idea :(

This little girl was so sad. She had dressed just as dad had told her too if she wanted to go...pants, shirt, socks & shoes... so we wiped away her tears, Maggie put the do-rag on her head, and we off we went to find them.

I mean... can we get any cuter here?!?

And find them we did. I gave her a piggy-back ride out, but once we found them, she was ALL big-girl LeaAnn and walked the whole time.

We had quite the crew!

This shot sums up how she handled the whole trip ;)

This sums up how Lydia felt about the whole trip! ;) pouting about something...

Love. this. picture.

Hamming it up for me :)

Amazing...

This was them 3 years ago on our very first camping trip...

Big sigh... and here they are playing, "no, you snap out of it!" Came from Shrek (original) when Shrek and Princess Fiona are walking together :) Silly I know, but that was Chris & I's movie... ions ago ;)

Barber shop time...

Look who loved the farm toys too!

I love how she kept the bandana on the whole time ;)

And it turned into all the boys getting mohawks from Uncle Craig! Even Kael got one a few days later :D

I love Brady's expression in this one :)

How happy is he??

And then the swinging started... :)

one of the boys..

Laynee

Wiam

Don't look Mimi ;) here's Lydia...

Lauren

Monday morning, Memorial Day... typical scene when we have unbelievable weather.

Awesome weekend, looking forward to many more!